“I got us a room.”
“You’re the best, babe.”
I watched as she climbed into the passenger seat of the car. Watched as Luke made a three-point turn in the driveway and drove back through the gates with Betty.
Garrett’s fiancée.
I looked around, hoping to see that someone else had seen that and known what it meant. Sadly, I was alone. I thought about charging back up the house to tell him, but that wasn’t exactly news I imagined he wanted to hear.
That his fiancée had been cheating on him. For months!
And did I have to do it, anyway? It sounded like Betty was about to break up with him any day.
Instantly I smiled. All hope was not lost. Garrett was going to need someone to console him after the breakup, and I planned to be just that person.
I would be so loyal to him he would forget Betty ever existed!
I was back, and when I stepped back into the house I felt like a prisoner who had just been granted a reprieve.
* * *
SABRINA
Two weeks later
I stopped in front of the window of the diner downtown. I could see it was filled, but that wasn’t what caught my attention. I watched as Garrett slid out of the booth and then bent over to kiss Betty before heading to the counter to pay the bill.
It had been two weeks since I saw her with the man she called Luke. The man she’d made out with. The man she’d gone to a hotel with. Two weeks and she hadn’t broken up with Garrett yet.
Two weeks where he was still obviously being duped by his seeming sweetheart who, in fact, was a horrible, lying bitch.
Who could possibly cheat on Garrett? Why would anyonewantto cheat on Garrett?
It made no sense. Not that I wasn’t grateful. The fact that Betty was cheating on him and intended to end things meant I was going to get another shot at Garrett. But when? How long did this go on? More importantly, how long did Iletthis go on?
After all the drama with Ronnie taking off and canceling the wedding, I’d had to focus on my family. Ronnie was gone. Bea was distraught. Hank was pissed. My mother had left to go shopping, there was a big surprise. I was trying to hold everyone together and failing miserably at it. Ronnie was the center of this family, not me!
I had thought that by now Betty would have done it and broken the engagement. But she hadn’t.
What if she didn’t? What if she was just stringing Luke along for the ride?
Garrett had to know.
He walked out of the diner and stopped when he saw me.
“Hey, Brin. Sorry, Sabrina. Any word from Ronnie?”
I shook my head.
“Do you know why she freaked out and called off the wedding?”
Again, I shook my head. I knew the town was talking about it. It was supposed to have been the wedding of the century. Now it was gone. Just like that.
“Garrett, do you have a second?”
“Sure. I’m heading back to the station. Can you walk with me? Or should I say, can you walk in those shoes?”
I looked down at my classic Jimmy Choo beige bumps. The way these shoes were designed I could run a marathon in them, but I get why men who worked for the sheriff and raised bulls didn’t get that.
